Photoproduction and Photodisintigration Processes of the Deuteron
Abstract
The Mainz Mictrotron (MAMI) is a continuous wave electron accelerator located at the Institut fuer Kernphysik in Mainz, Germany. It is the best tagged photon facility below 855 MeV and has extremely high energy resolution. TAPS, or Two Arm Photon Spectrometer, is a high resolution photon detection system that has been used at MAMI for the past fifteen years. In 2002 the (SLAC) Crystal Ball multiphoton spectrometer was moved from Brookhaven National Laboratory to Mainz due to the excellent facilities at MAMI. The combination of TAPS and the Crystal Ball form a truly 4p detection system for protons and neutrons. A photon beam with energies between 400 and 855 MeV has been used with a liquid deuterium target to investigate several photoproduction and photodisintigration processes. Among these are coherent p0 production on the deuteron itself, p0 production off the individual quasi-free nucleons, and the photodisintigration of the deuteron into a proton and a neutron. While each of these processes have physics interest, the latter can also be used to calibrate the detection efficiency of the Crystal Ball and TAPS for neutrons. We plan to report on the preliminary physics and calibration results from the first measurements made with the deuterium target.
- Publication:
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APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2004
- Bibcode:
- 2004APS..DNP.CK023G